Hidden inside adze sit adze, daze, and zeda, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
adze, daze, and zeda tie for the highest Scrabble score from adze at 14 points. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in adze: two come from rearranging its letters, and adze itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adze, daze, and zeda, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling adze turns up 2 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adz and zed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in adze. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in adze and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
adze is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in adze carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for adze. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
adze is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing adze unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are adze, daze, and zeda, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from adze earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in adze produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 2 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.